Home on the Prairie

Home on the Prairie is a 1939 American Western film directed by Jack Townley and starring Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, and June Storey. Written by Charles Arthur Powell and Paul Franklin, the film is about a cattle inspectors efforts to prevent a corrupt cattle rancher from shipping to market a herd of cattle infected with hoof and mouth disease.

Genes sidekick, Frog Millhouse Smiley Burnette, discovers a dead calf and hurries to the dance to alert Gene. Gene, Frog, and Marthas father Jim Wheeler George Cleveland, who is also a cattle rancher, leave the dance to investigate, but Jim becomes separated from Gene and Frog and soon discovers the truck bearing the diseased cattle. A gun battle ensues and Jim is badly wounded. Hearing the gunshots, Gene rushes to his rescue. In the chaos, the truck driver slips away to the Belknap ranch.The next morning, Belknap and Shelby try to agitate the other ranchers by claiming that a quarantine is unfair. Gene, however, puts an end to their argument by announcing that a state veterinarian, Dr. Sommers Jack Mulhall, is on his way. Alarmed at what the vet will find, Belknap and Shelby change the brand on their cattle to Jim Wheelers brand and bury the dead animals on the Wheeler property. When Dr. Sommers arrives, he quarantines Jims herd and allows the other ranchers to begin shipping their animals. ........

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